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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They get above a 4.0 once they have taken one of the AP history classes in 10th grade.  So, you won't see kids with GPAs as high as schools that give a bonus for honors/intensified or let students start taking AP in 9th grade.  The first AP doesn't boost it too much.  I think my straight-A student has a 4.05 after 1 AP sophomore year.[/quote]

Wakefield (& probably WL & Yorktown?) allows 9th graders to take AP World History.  [/quote]

Yorktown does not. 10th graders will take AP world, AP Euro or APHUG. [b]That is why it matters that their grade is looked at compared to others in their school.[/b] There isn’t even consistency among the three primary high schools in Arlington.[/quote]

I don't get why this is an issue. 
It's the GPA when you're applying to colleges and graduating that counts. So what if you don't start taking AP courses until 10th or 11th.[/quote]

The reason it matters is because some of the weighted GPAss are simply not possible at some schools.  A straight
 A, high rigor transcript may be a 4.5 at one school and a 4.1 at the other school. Both students did well in the classes they were offered. Colleges don’t penalize students who don’t have AP options. [/quote]

But it doesn’t actually matter because colleges know each schools grading/weighting system and compare accordingly. They have software that recalculates everything to be the easiest comparison possible. You shouldn’t worry about this whatsoever.[/quote]

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